The 30-year-old, from Oklahoma, is accused of Lewd Acts to a Child Under 16 and forcible oral sodomy and will go on trial later this year.

Last October the 10-year-old boy’s dad is said to have told police his son had been sexually assaulted by Ledbetter.

In a police interview, the child made disclosures of sexual abuse similar to what his father reported.

Pauls Valley Police Chief Mitch McGill told TV news channel KFOR said: “I think it’s probably the hardest case as an officer, or a detective that you would have to do is to investigate a child that`s been molested, or sexually assaulted.”

Ledbetter’s dad, Claude Ledbetter, is the pastor of Pauls Valley Church of the Nazarene.

He told NewsChannel 4 that his daughter is innocent and has been wrongfully accused.